Design Stack: A Blog about Art, Design and Architecture: Painting Prevailed in the Life of this Artist

4 Jun 2015

Painting Prevailed in the Life of this Artist

James Neil Hollingsworth has had a varied and very interesting life, these are the highlights. Straight after high school he joined the Air Force, once he was discharged, he attended night school while doing various jobs during the day. He moved on to a technical school, becoming an aircraft mechanic. From there he was invited to go and work in a graphic design business and a chance encounter, with an old friend, started a partnership in a typesetting / graphic design business. When the business was no longer viable he went back to school and became a qualified nurse. Through all of this the only constant was his art, that he managed to fit in whenever he could. Ten years later a friend of his, told him he was selling his art on the internet, so Hollingsworth worked as a nurse during the day, whilst painting at nights and weekends. A lot of hard work, with long days and nights, eventually allowed him to leave nursing and paint full time, now his work is collected all around the world.